The Irish standard., 1887-06-25
TRADE AND .LABoh ITEMS.

TRADE AND LABoh ITEMS :
| Two LARGE Assem- blies Of Cinnamon have
been founded in New York.
THE green glass bottle factories are all
running, with fair prospects
Coal nine feet in thickness is SAID to
have been found near Knobel, Ark.
An effort is being made to develop tho
coal deposits at Walnut Cove, n. G.
Coal has been found in Vernon County,
Mo-, recently. at depth Of sixty-five feet
THERE are 154 local assemblies, Knights
Of Labor, in good standing in the State Of
Maryland.
The Brooklyn painters, carpenters and
horseshoers have all made demands for
more pay and have succeeded.
TIE New York Legislature has passed
the bill giving the Labor party an inspector
Of elections at future contests.
Our of the 5000 strikers during May
10000 are in the building trades, 1900 are
coke makers, and 8, 200 stove molders.
Tool works and foundries and machine
shops are springing up rapidly in the
South, and Northern skilled labor is in de-
mand.
TIE Cooperative Coal Co. of Blooming.
ton, Ill, has ceased business. Miners coa.
tributed nearly 5000 in the organization
of this company.
To SOME extent the nail product is being
curtailed, and certain eastern manu-
facturers have combined not to sell their
nails below g IS per keg.
TRADE continues good in the plate glass
market, and reports show that the market
is oversold. This is good news for both
the workers and their employers.
THE Cincinnati Labor Publishing Co.
has been incorporated with capital
stock of 100000 for the publication of q
daily and weekly newspaper and general
printing business.
The carpenters Of Washington, D. e..
are receiving three dollars day for nine
hours work. The carpenters Of Richmond
are receiving from $3.50 to $225 for ten
hours work.
The Brotherhood of Painters and Deco.
rators of America is an organization re-
Gently formed which proposes to unite
into single body all the painters and
decorators throughout the United States
and Canada.
The development of rich coal beds in the
far Northwest threatens to revolutionize
the mining industry. One vein six feet
thick has been found. There is great
boom in mining operations, and milling
machinery makers are in receipt OF large
orders for quick delivery.
For the first time in the history Of Nor.
mon combination there has been strike
of Mormon working men against reduc-
ton Of wages. The revolters in the big
church cooperative shoe factory in Salt
Lake City stopped work to protest against
an attempt to reduce their wages.
The agitation for reducing the hours Of
labor has been successful in many locali.
ties. The nine-hour plan is being more
generally accepted than ever before. The
sash and blind-m skers Of New York and
Brooklyn signed contracts with their en-
ployers on the nine-hour plan short time
ago
TIE Trenton IN. J.) Iron Company have
completed new machine for making wire
cables have to be made Of the very best
material and require careful work. 1t will
be possible with this new machine to make
rope one and quarter inches in diameter,
and very nearly eight miles long. in one
continuous piece without splice.
TH1 English are doing some superior
work in steel crank shafting. One shaft
has just been turned out which weighs
sixty SIX tons Steel bars are turned out
in English steel works which bear a ten.
sile strain Of twenty-eight to sixty.fve
tons per square inch. They make forged
steel which stands strain Of from twenty.
eight to eighty-seven tons per square inch.
The Calumet Iron and Steel Company,
Of Chicago, have recently entered upon
the manufacture of splice bars, having
adopted one of their roll trains for this
purpose. They have accumulated sufa.
cient orders to make steady run for
some time, and are now turning out about
fifty tons day, The orders on hand call
for eleven patterns of splice bars for a.
many separate railroad companies.
The schuylkill region has 190 ,collieries,
employing $3.50 miners, who mine 9,O00,.
600 tons Of coal and are paid $11, ,0O0 600 an.
nually in wages. There are So collieries
the Lehigh region, employing 1900
miners. and in the Wyoming region there
are 100 collieries, employing 5000 work.
ers, who are paid $14, O00. 600. There are in
all 2S1 collieries, employing 5000 men,
who earn $50, o00, 600 per year.
IT is said the Italian working.men be.
longing to the Knights of Labor in the
United States are about to withdraw from
the order and form themselves into an in.
ternational organization, embracing Eu-
rope. The h lquarters in this country
will be in Chicago, and in Europe,in Genoa.
A convention of all the Italians branches
Of the order will be held in July. Italian
delegates are now travelling through the
country organizing the toilers into Ma
tional body.
THE MEDAL OF HONOR.
A Decoration for the Living Soldiers of the
Late Civil War.
Nearly ~ (l0O O0O neonle of the United